According to a
witness on Saturday, September 5th, 2009, 3 suspects arrived
at 7406 Williams Road in a truck pulling a horse trailer where 8 horses
were pastured. The suspects talked to the witness while in the process
of catching and loading 5 of the 8 horses into a trailer with the
assistance of 2 other horses they brought with them. The other 3 horses
ran away and could not be caught. The witness did not know the horses
were being stolen.

On Wednesday,
September 9th 2009, a witness saw one of the horses that was
left behind in the pasture with a rope around its neck and concerned for
its safety called the owner. Once the owner arrived it was discovered
that the other horses that were taken away in the trailer on Saturday
were in fact stolen from the pasture with out the owner’s permission.

The Hillsborough
County Sheriff’s Office was then called by the owner to report the
horses as being stolen. Upon further investigation deputies located an
area in the fence that had been cut and taken down allowing the suspects
access to the pasture.